GENEVA, Switzerland – It’s just started in Geneva the CEOP International Implementation Planning Meeting, held on 15-17 September 2008 and hosted by the WCRP Secretariat at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Headquarters building. During the meeting, EvK2Cnr Committee will play a chief role in the session on High Elevations initiative.

KATHMANDU, Nepal --The Hindukush Karakoram Himalayan region (HKKH) Partnership handed over the results of a significant land cover research of Sagarmatha National Park and its Buffer Zone (SNPBZ) to C (DNPWC) on Wednesday.

An exceptional number of researchers will be engaged in baseline studies and capacity building activities in the Sagarmatha National Park in September-October, 2007. The researchers, coordinated by Ev-K2-CNR, come mostly from Nepalese research centers and universities, such as the Tribhuvan University, founded in 1959 AD, the first university and the pioneer institute of higher education in Nepal, the Kathmandu University, a more recent public institution dedicated to maintain high standards of academic excellence, and Resources Himalaya, research institute operating as an independent think-tank on biodiversity conservation in the Himalaya region.
 

From September 22 to September 27, 2007,The World Conservation Union (IUCN) hosted at the Hyatt Hotel in Kathmandu the 4th Asia Regional Conservation Forum. It's an international conference on environment and sustainable development held every four years in different places.